Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!

We went to the library the other day and picked up the complete version of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.

We only have the shortened board book version.

I had no idea all the fun we had been missing all these years with the short version.

:(

So anyway, after reading, we decided to have some craft fun with the theme.

The girls each cut and glued a coconut tree.

(I helped Maya with the cutting part.)

Belle handled her cutting perfectly.

Until she got to the leaves.

Then she wanted help.

Which, I gave reluctantly...

...she really needs to practice these things on her own.

Maya was intent on telling Bella that she was a big girl too and could do it "all by myself".

(Yes, I cut the pieces.  She still says she did it.)

PS - you can see Belle's growing Book Worm on the wall in the background.

She's been doing such a good job and when she reads a book, she gets to add another piece.

She loves to read, just to get to add another piece.

Hopefully some day she'll love to read just cuz reading is fun.

Back on track...here's Belle gluing the leaves on her tree

And her finished tree.

After they cut and glued their coconut trees, I gave them an alphabet of stickers.

Maya stuck hers mostly up in the leaves of the tree.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom...guess there WAS enough room!  ;)

Bella chose to put hers "climbing" up the tree, with only a few in the tree.

(She looks so sad, but I swear she was all over this project...had a great time!)

She carefully placed each sticker exactly where she deemed it was SUPPOSED to be.

And as she placed each sticker, we made sure we knew what letter it was.

"It's a little e Mommy!"

"And it goes RIGHT here."

After we finished our Coconut Trees, we did a little "Math".

We picked a page, and Maya counted all the different colored letters and Bella created a bar graph.

Our goal was to figure out which color had the most letters and which color had the fewest letters.

When Maya became disinterested with waiting for Bella between counting, she colored.

But Belle continued to work diligently on the bar graph.

And she was so proud of her work when she was done! 

And I was proud too. 

And best of all, we had a lot of fun.